What are the important events that happened on April 15? Here are historical events, facts, and some myths about this day.
April 15: Facts & Myths About This Day
April 15 is the 106th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 260 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Monday.
Under the Julian calendar, this day is April 2, 2024 – a Monday. Both day of the week are the same but did you notice the difference with the Gregorian calendar?
When this day started, 28,552,320 minutes has elapsed since midnight of January 1, 1970 – the Unix epoch.
Strange as it may, if we name this day after a polygon then it will be called ‘hectahexagon’ day.
Aries is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Diamond is the modern birthstone for this month. Opal is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 289 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
The ancient Maya civilization believes that the end of the world will happen on December 21, 2012. There are now 4,133 days since this fabled cataclysmic event.
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April 15 Historical Events
- 1071 –Bari, the last Byzantine possession in southern Italy, is surrendered to Robert Guiscard.
- 1632 –Battle of Rain; Swedes under Gustavus Adolphus defeat the Holy Roman Empire during the Thirty Years’ War.
- 1865 –Abraham Lincoln dies without regaining consciousness after being shot the previous evening by actor John Wilkes Booth.
- 1924 –Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas.
- 1927 –The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, the most destructive river flood in U.S. history, begins.
- 1940 –The Allies begin their attack on the Norwegian town of Narvik which is occupied by Nazi Germany.
- 1943 –An Allied bomber attack misses the Minerva automobile factory and hits the Belgian town of Mortsel instead, killing 936 civilians.
- 1945 –The Bergen-Belsen concentration camp is liberated.
- 1970 –During the Cambodian Civil War, massacres of the Vietnamese minority results in 800 bodies flowing down the Mekong River into South Vietnam.
- 1979 –A disastrous earthquake (of M 7.1) occurs on Montenegro coast.
Who were born on April 15?
- 1641 –Robert Sibbald, Scottish physician (d. 1722)
- 1642 –Suleiman II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1691)
- 1879 –Melville Henry Cane, American lawyer (d. 1980)
- 1892 –Theo Osterkamp, World War I and World War II German fighter pilot (d. 1975)
- 1907 –Nikolaas Tinbergen, Dutch ethologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1988)
- 1947 –Lois Chiles, American actress
- 1953 –Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, Greek politician
- 1959 –Fruit Chan, Hong Kong film director
- 1969 –Jeromy Burnitz, American baseball player
- 1970 –Flex Alexander, American actor
Who died on April 15?
- 1610 –Robert Parsons, English Jesuit priest (b. 1546)
- 1621 –John Carver, first governor of Plymouth Colony (b. 1576)
- 1719 –Françoise d'Aubigné, marquise de Maintenon, second wife of Louis XIV of France (b. 1635)
- 1912 –Victims of the RMS Titanic disaster: William T. Stead English author and journalist (b. 1849)
- 1948 –Radola Gajda, Czech military commander and politician (b. 1892)
- 1957 –Pedro Infante, Mexican actor and singer (b. 1917)
- 1984 –Alexander Trocchi, Scottish writer (b. 1925)
- 1984 –Tommy Cooper, Welsh comedy magician (b. 1921)
- 1989 –Nesuhi Ertegün, American record executive (b. 1917)
- 1990 –Greta Garbo, Swedish actress (b. 1905)
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